DARBY BOROUGH — A pair of Delaware County siblings were arraigned almost simultaneously Wednesday afternoon on identical charges, including murder, for a pair of unrelated shootings that occurred four months apart in two different areas of the county.

Jawine Sudler, 26, of the 300 block of North Front Street in Darby is facing charges of first and third degree murder for the Aug. 10 shooting death of Osiris Stephone Pannell. Sudler’s brother, Myron Jones, 21, of the 2700 block of Lehman Street in Chester, is charged with shooting Jamere Porter on April 24 near Jones’ home. Porter later died from his injuries.

Sudler allegedly parked an SUV outside of Pannell’s house in the 400 block of Darby Terrace at about 1:30 a.m. on Aug. 10, according to an affidavit of probable cause filed by Darby police investigators. Pannell allegedly retrieved a handgun from a hiding place inside his home and went to the front porch with three other people, telling a friend that he didn’t “trust these n—ers.”

Sudler and one of Pannell’s friends began arguing about an insult the friend had allegedly hurled at Sudler’s girlfriend a week earlier.

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“Yo, you call my girl a bitch,” Sudler is alleged to have said.

At one point, a car full of women driven by Sudler’s girlfriend pulled onto the block. The affidavit says that the girlfriend identified one of Pannell’s friends as the man who had previously insulted her.

Pannell and one of his friends passed the handgun back and forth, at which point Sudler pulled out a gun of his own and began firing, the affidavit says. Pannell’s friends ran back inside the home, but Pannell was shot once in the chest and collapsed in the street. He was declared dead a short time later at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.

Sudler and another man in the SUV fled the scene. Police were initially trying to identify the passenger in the vehicle, but with Sudler’s arrest Wednesday, he was no longer a person of interest.

Darby Police Chief Robert Smythe credited the tireless efforts of his detectives with capturing the suspect, and praised the cooperation of neighboring law enforcement officers.

“My guys have been working on it 18 to 20 hours a day,” Smythe said Wednesday. “While working on leads they ended up with an address and bingo, he was there.”

Darby detectives were assisted by the Upper Darby police and the FBI Fugitive Task Force, and located Sudler in a home on Merwood Drive in Upper Darby. He was taken into custody at about 8:30 a.m. Wednesday after a brief surveillance period.

“He was laying there with a copy of the Daily Times next to him with a big picture of himself on the cover,” Smythe said, referring to the Aug. 16 edition of the newspaper.

Sudler had been bouncing around from house to house throughout the last 10 days, Smythe said, and he allegedly stashed the dark-colored Dodge Durango he was driving at the time of the shooting at an abandoned house near his brother’s Chester home.

“Detective Richard Gibney’s plainclothes unit, along with our uniformed detectives, have been working 18 hour days since it happened,” Smythe said. “They followed the leads until they got him.”

The affidavit of probable cause details the investigation, which relied greatly on witness testimony about the events leading up to and immediately following the shooting. Detective Brian Pitts and Gibney determined that Sudler had a previous conviction for possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver, making him ineligible to possess a firearm.

At the same time that Sudler was being arraigned in Darby District Court, his brother, Myron Jones, was being charged with murder in Chester for an April 24 shooting that turned fatal.

Witnesses told police that Jones, known as “Mugga,” was standing in the 2700 block of Lehman Street at about 4 p.m. on April 24. A large SUV drove past with two men inside, and Jones allegedly “chewed” at them, meaning he shouted a coded phrase to which only someone from that neighborhood would know how to correctly respond, according to an affidavit of probable cause filed by Chester detectives William Wright and Robert Whitaker.

When the occupants of the passing vehicle did not “chew” back, witnesses allege Jones and another individual retrieved guns hidden in a nearby trash can and ran to intercept the truck. Jones allegedly fired into the vehicle with a handgun holding an extended magazine, while another shooter fired a shotgun at least twice toward the vehicle.

The vehicle continued driving until it crashed into a fence and a post pierced the windshield, injuring the driver who had already sustained multiple gunshot wounds. The shooters fled the scene and police arrived after the shots were reported. They stopped the SUV, which was driving erratically from the scene, at gunpoint, and a passenger jumped out with a gun in his hand and began running through backyards in the 1500 block of Honan Street. He dropped the gun and was apprehended after a brief foot chase.

The driver of the vehicle, Jamere Porter, exited the vehicle and laid on the ground. Officers noticed he was suffering from multiple gunshot wounds to the abdomen and summoned paramedics. Porter allegedly told officers “Myron shot me,” before being taken to Crozer-Chester Medical Center.

Police found a Glock handgun with a 30-round magazine in the vehicle, numerous shell casings of three different calibers and bullets that had struck the vehicle. Porter required additional surgery four days after the shooting, but was eventually transferred to Delaware County prison on weapons charges stemming from the shooting.

On May 11, while at the county prison, Porter went into cardiac arrest and died in an operating room at Riddle Memorial Hospital. The Delaware County Medical Examiner’s office determined the cause of death to be pulmonary emboli developed as a result of multiple gunshot wounds, and ruled the cause of death to be homicide.

Jones had been in Delaware County prison since July 10 awaiting a preliminary hearing on numerous drug charges stemming from a June 9 incident. He was preliminarily arraigned on murder charges Wednesday for the death of Porter.

Jones was also suspected of being a getaway driver in a shooting in Darby in 2013, according to Smythe, but charges were never filed.

Sudler is scheduled for a preliminary hearing on charges of first- and third-degree murder, criminal homicide, possessing an instrument of crime, possession of a firearm by a prohibited person and possessing a firearm without a license on Wednesday, Aug. 27, at 1 p.m. in Darby District Court. Bail was denied by Magisterial District Judge Leonard Tenaglia.

Jones is scheduled for a preliminary hearing on charges of first- and third-degree murder, criminal homicide, possessing an instrument of crime, possession of a firearm by a prohibited person and possessing a firearm without a license on Sept. 3 before Magisterial District Judge Spencer B. Seaton.